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Date Posted: 04:13:29 11/22/03 Sat
Author: a kriya yogi - 21 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: Loyalty to the Guru and His work
In reply to: a kriya yogi - 21 Oct 2003 's message, "Re: Loyalty to the Guru and His work" on 04:12:53 11/22/03 Sat


Hearken ye, self-styled Christians or followers of Churchianity: just by uttering the name of Jesus, “Lord, Lord, Lord,” in conversation and preaching, you may impress others as being devout, but you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. So-called Christians, who are satisfied with attending church on Sunday morning and absent-mindedly listening to Sunday sermons and hymns, reach that kind of Heaven–only that much and nothing more.

Real Christians are those who embrace the Cosmic wisdom and Bliss of Jesus Christ in their own consciousness through meditation and ecstasy. This is the meaning of, “He that doeth the will of the Father which is in the Heavenly region of Bliss.”

All mechanical church-and-temple-goers, and all theological students, must remember that verbal praise to the Lord without corresponding response and theological study without gaining Self-Realization, is of little value in the eyes of God. The principles governing divine life are exact, like those of any other branch of science in God’s Creation. People who want to be Christians must know and feel the presence of Christ all the time, must commune with Him in ecstasy, and be guided by Him and know that He is, and ever will be, and not just somehow be superficially satisfied by uttering the name of the Lord a few times every day without knowing whether the Lord actually exists or responds. If Jesus and God ever existed, they exist now and ever will exist. If they are perpetually existent, then that Truth must be verified in the lives of all Truth-loving Christians.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

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